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Habakkuk 2:14

For the earth shall be filled, that they might know the glory of the Lord, like the waters spreading over the sea.

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

In Context

13Are not these things before the Lord of hosts? For the people will labor amid a great fire, and the nations will labor in emptiness, and they will fail.

15Woe to anyone who gives a drink to a friend, releasing a drug and inebriating, so as to look upon their nakedness.

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Cross References

Psalms 72:19How have they been brought to desolation? They have suddenly failed. They have perished because of their iniquity.

Psalms 98:1A Psalm of David himself. The Lord has reigned: let the peoples be angry. He sits upon the cherubim: let the earth be moved.

Isaiah 11:9They will not harm, and they will not kill, on all my holy mountain. For the earth has been filled with the knowledge of the Lord, like the waters covering the sea.

Ezekiel 47:5And he measured one thousand, and he led me forward, through the water, up to the waist. And he measured one thousand, into a torrent, through which I was not able to pass. For the waters had risen to become a profound torrent, which was not able to be crossed.

Zechariah 14:8And this shall be in that day: the living waters will go out from Jerusalem, half of them towards the East sea, and half of them towards the furthest sea. They will be in summer and in winter.

Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 2:6-15

Judgment Predicted; Judgment of the King of Babylon. ( b. c. 600.) 5 Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people: 6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay! 7 Shall… Read the whole commentary →

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